Overalls



(No Model.)

, J. LOEWENSTEIN 8v J. VAN BAALEN.-

Overalls.

No. 241,871. Patented May 24,1881.-

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JACOB LOEWENSTEIN AND JOSEPH VAN BAALEN, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

OVERALLS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 241,871, dated May 24, 1881.

Application filed March 23, 1881.

To all whom it may cancer-n:

Be it known that we, JACOB LOEWENSTEIN and. JOSEPH VAN BAALEN, of Detroit, Wayne county, Michigan, have invented an Improvement in Overalls, of which the following is a specification.

The nature of this invention relates to new and useful improvements in the construction of overalls, whereby the liability to tear or rip at the bottom of the front flies and at the conjunction of the inner leg-seams is entirely obviated.

The invention consists in the strengthening of those parts, substantially as hereinafter described.

Figure 1 shows an elevation of the body, with the legs distended in opposite directions to expose the inner leg-seams at their conjunction with the body. Fig. 2 represents the form and construction of the stays. Fig. 3 is a crosssection of the sameon the line 3 3 in Fig. 2.

In the accompanying drawings, which form a partof this specification, A A represent two gores, the inner ends of which overlap each other, as shown in Fig. 3, and are firmly stitched together at a.

B is a stay, consisting of a strip of the material of which the overalls are made, single or double, as may be desired,which passes between theoverlappin gendsof the gores, andi s stitched to the inner one of such overlapping ends; at I) this piece returns upon itself to c, and the parts between I) 0 are stitched together, leaving free ends d e.

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The gore-pieces are inserted in the inner-sides of the legs, as shown in Fig. 1, bringing the part made double by the overlapping ends directly into the position where the inner seams of the legs and body meet, thereby giving great strength to that particular part so liable to rip or tear as ordinarily made. The free end 6 of the stay Bis stitched on the inside of theseain which runs backward or under the crotch or seat. The doubled portion from b to c is carried up and firmly stitched to the front of the button-fly, as shown in Fig. 1, while the free end 01 is carried up and firmly stitched to the inner side of the button-hole fly, thereby preventing any tendency to rip down ward from the point of conjunction between the two flies.

What we claim as our invention is-- 1. As a means of staying the inner leg and seat seams and flies of overalls, the stay consisting of the gores A A and stay B, constructed and stitched together substantially as described.

2. Asa new article of manufacture, overalls wherein the inner leg-seams, seat-seam, and flies are made firm and prevented from ripping or tearing by the overlapping gores A A and stay B, substantially as specified.

J AUOB LOEWENSTEIN. JOSEPH VAN BAALEN.

Witnesses:

H. S. SPRAGUE, E. W. ANDREWS. 

